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Barbecue eatery owner, segregationist Maurice Bessinger dies at 83
The State ^ | February 24, 2014 | JOHN MONK

Posted on 02/24/2014 7:22:27 AM PST by Gamecock

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1 posted on 02/24/2014 7:22:27 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: upchuck

SC Ping


2 posted on 02/24/2014 7:22:46 AM PST by Gamecock (Grace is not opposed to human activity. It's opposed to human merit. MSH)
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His BBQ just wasn’t all that good, IMHO


3 posted on 02/24/2014 7:23:11 AM PST by Gamecock (Grace is not opposed to human activity. It's opposed to human merit. MSH)
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To: Gamecock

It took me a couple years of living in West Columbia to warm up to yellow barbecue. But, once I tried it, I really liked it. WCola wouldn’t be the same without “The Flying Pig”.

RIP Maurice.


4 posted on 02/24/2014 7:36:00 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Gamecock
Obviously a horrible person with pernicious ideas -- but in the 1964 Katzenbach v. McClung decision, America's little dictators on SCOTUS had already warped the Commerce Clause beyond recognition in order advance their idea of social engineering.
5 posted on 02/24/2014 7:45:30 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Gamecock
the National Association for the Preservation of White People.

Whoaaa we wouldn't want that!

6 posted on 02/24/2014 7:48:12 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Gamecock
well-known mustard barbecue sauce....


He'll have to answer for that sin too.

7 posted on 02/24/2014 7:50:55 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: fungoking

That is the way God intended BBQ to be made.


8 posted on 02/24/2014 7:53:31 AM PST by Gamecock (Grace is not opposed to human activity. It's opposed to human merit. MSH)
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To: Gamecock

well... although I think it’s bad business to exclude any group of customers, I will always argue that a business should have the right to deny service to anyone they wish for any reason they wish.


9 posted on 02/24/2014 7:56:19 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Gamecock

“It is really a constitutional right - whether a man has the right to run his business without governmental interference,” he said then.

Regardless of his other stances, he was right about that.

Social engineering doesn’t trump property rights and freedom of association. Except in the mind of leftists/statists.


10 posted on 02/24/2014 7:57:07 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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11 posted on 02/24/2014 7:57:13 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Gamecock
Love KC style and Texas, just never got in to mustard, almost as bad as finding cole slaw on your sandwich.
12 posted on 02/24/2014 7:58:32 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: BenLurkin
Obviously a horrible person with pernicious ideas --

He was anything but a horrible person. A lot of his attitudes were from the era in which he grew up, and even those attitudes softened in his later years. Most of his black workers loved him. He was kind gracious and charitable.

This is one last jab from a screaming liberal news rag that despised Mr. Bessinger and anything Confederate. Most of what is printed here is slanted and taken out of context. They found not one kind thing to say, and he was a very kind man. RIP, sir.

13 posted on 02/24/2014 8:02:17 AM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: fungoking

i’ve been in North Carolina for a year now, and i just do not liking “vinegar” barbeque... i am a California gal, and i guess i am used to the Texas-type barbeque... i love it!


14 posted on 02/24/2014 8:07:13 AM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: PistolPaknMama
Every time my wife and I would take a road trip down from east Tennessee to Isle of Palms; we would make a point to drop off Interstate 26 for a bit to snarf down some of his 'to die for' chicken tenders.

May your find eternal rest in the arms of Jesus Christ, Mr. Bessinger.

15 posted on 02/24/2014 8:10:38 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

So many Freepers are so I’ll informed and suffocated by post 1990 narrative

Bless their hearts

Must really pump them up to feel so superior to all who came before them


16 posted on 02/24/2014 8:18:46 AM PST by wardaddy (Bus to Shreveport... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYF682WYRtw&feature=youtube_gdata_)
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To: fungoking

Segregation is a sin?

I must have missed that.

Me and the founding fathers.

Mostly all pre 1970s Americans....including the noble Yankees


17 posted on 02/24/2014 8:22:07 AM PST by wardaddy (Bus to Shreveport... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYF682WYRtw&feature=youtube_gdata_)
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To: Gamecock; Pelham; Travis McGee; CatherineofAragon

White segregationists tended to come from areas with large black populations...often the majority or close

They feared black rule having observed what they saw as pitfalls in group black behavioral patterns from decades

Ask anyone who lives in a majority or near majority black city if their fears were unfounded.

Be honest

I grew up in this and was obnoxiously libtard in arguing with the evil discrimi actors but now living in the mess we’ve created I recognize my folly

Not sure what we could have done...not creating a dependence class would have helped but the issues predate that which just made it worse

The whole world discriminates and segregates and strives to maintain cultural and ethnic/racial identity integrity

Only in the demonized west is this the ultimate sin....punishable by law

And hence we will crumble away into brown polyglot dust in the future as a result and take all our resented civilization with us....but at least we can’t be called bigots anymore...the horror

So prepare your spawn...gonna be a rough downward spiral


18 posted on 02/24/2014 8:32:41 AM PST by wardaddy (Bus to Shreveport... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYF682WYRtw&feature=youtube_gdata_)
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To: fungoking

Yeah, what’s up with Cole slaw on BBQ in NC? That was a particularly nasty surprise when I ordered a lovely pulled pork sandwich and found slaw on it. Ugh.


19 posted on 02/24/2014 8:37:06 AM PST by AnAmericanInEngland
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To: PistolPaknMama

RIP to a very fine gentleman.


20 posted on 02/24/2014 9:51:05 AM PST by StoneWall Brigade
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